Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Forty
Speaker 1: seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening around these parts. It's no
Speaker 1: longer smoke from a distant fire that's been affecting us.
Speaker 1: It is smoke from nearby fires. North of Boston. One
Speaker 1: fire in Middleton near the reservoir has increased in size,
Speaker 1: and WBZTV's Penny commit tells us there's an even larger
Speaker 1: one burning near Salem.
Speaker 2: With one hundred and thirty acres burned. Crews from up
Speaker 2: and down the state are in Salem today trying to
Speaker 2: save another one hundred and thirty acres from catching flame.
Speaker 2: Fire Chief Allan Dyon says that will all depend on
Speaker 2: the wind. Were anticipating the fire will flare up again today.
Speaker 2: This morning, we saw Cruise tackle a large brush fire
Speaker 2: off Highland Avenue. It reignited about forty five minutes later
Speaker 2: when the wind picked up. This cycle, the Chief says,
Speaker 2: is making it difficult for Cruise to fully extinguished these flames.
Speaker 1: The good news for Halloween revelers is that downtown activities
Speaker 1: in Salem so far are unaffected. The beatles, saying about
Speaker 1: eight days a week. By that logic, election days a
Speaker 1: week away. In reality, it's a week plus a day,
Speaker 1: hence eight days the presidential candidates hitting the road and
Speaker 1: digging for votes from the undecided. Still, Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris has another battleground state blitz.
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris today makes several stomps in battleground Michigan,
Speaker 3: focusing on investment in manufacturing. Her campaign says she'll argue
Speaker 3: she would be a better president at protecting American jobs
Speaker 3: and her opponent Donald Trump. She'll visit a facility that
Speaker 3: produces solar panel parts and received a three hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five million dollar federal grant last week, touring the
Speaker 3: assembly line and meeting with workers. She'll later visit a
Speaker 3: union training facility, meeting with instructors and apprentices. Tonight, the
Speaker 3: Vice president will hold a rally with her running mate,
Speaker 3: Governor Tim Walls in ann Arbor, home to the University
Speaker 3: of Michigan. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump rally in New York City last night. Today,
Speaker 1: he's back on the campaign trail down south.
Speaker 4: Today, Trump holds two events in Georgia, afternoon remarks to
Speaker 4: a gathering of faith leaders, and then an evening rally
Speaker 4: in Atlanta following last night's Mega MAGA rally at Madison
Speaker 4: Square Garden. Trump's campaign is actively seeking to distance itself
Speaker 4: from the jokes told by a little known comic before
Speaker 4: Trump took the stage. His line that Puerto Rico is
Speaker 4: a floating island of garbage is one that Florida Republican
Speaker 4: Senator Rick Scott calls not funny and not true.
Speaker 1: Matt is ABC, Stephen Portnoy, eight days to go until
Speaker 1: election day. Keep it to to WBZ. We'll keep you
Speaker 1: up to date, and of course we'll have election results
Speaker 1: here on election night. You can always hear us streaming
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Efforts to end the war in
Speaker 1: Gaza continue the US and others looking too free nearly
Speaker 1: one hundred hostages and bring relief to the war torn region.
Speaker 1: A new round of ceasefire talks in Cutter today, the
Speaker 1: first talks since Israel killed last leader yay Sinhwar, who
Speaker 1: had blocked several ceasefire deals.
Speaker 5: A new round of US led Gaza ceasefire talks underway
Speaker 5: in Doha with the Israelis Egyptians. Katari's CIA chief Bill
Speaker 5: Burns weighing some new options, from a shorter initial ceasefire
Speaker 5: to a sweeping all for all deal that is, declaring
Speaker 5: an immediate end of the war, releasing all ninety seven
Speaker 5: Israeli hostages, and a swift Israeli army redeployment. Egypt's proposal
Speaker 5: for a two day cease fire grabbing headlines, but Hamas
Speaker 5: indicating to will reject any partial deal and stick to
Speaker 5: its hardline position. Geordana Miller, ABC News, Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Chilli night Tonight is some of the inland suburbs get
Speaker 1: well down into the thirties, and we may have a
Speaker 1: frost in some areas. Gets cold enough, and it could
Speaker 1: in a few of the normally colder spots we may
Speaker 1: get a freeze. No freezing in Boston about forty two
Speaker 1: for the low downtown under mainly clear skies, clouds and sun.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow to be breezy and a little bit milder than today,
Speaker 1: Temperatures in the mid to upper fifties. Tomorrow night cloudy, breezy,
Speaker 1: a little rain gets in here, especially after midnight, Temperatures
Speaker 1: in the low fifties. And then Wednesday, the sun comes
Speaker 1: back out. The temperatures come up to about seventy degrees,
Speaker 1: mostly sunny on Thursday, mid to upper seventies, and then
Speaker 1: a couple of shours possible to Thursday night before we
Speaker 1: get a little bit cooler back into the sixties on Friday.
Speaker 1: Right now it is forty seven degrees in Boston. It
Speaker 1: was a dangerously fun playground structure. Now it's becoming a
Speaker 1: sizzling hot collector's item. Wz's Matt Shearer climbs in.
Speaker 6: Remember burger jails. Back in the seventies, McDonald's built their
Speaker 6: iconic play places, including the infamous Big Mac Climber, a
Speaker 6: giant cheeseburger that kids could climb into and unfortunately get
Speaker 6: very hurt on. There were hundreds of hospital visits. By
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety seven, McDonald's had disposed of them all but
Speaker 6: a few survived, which brings us to Easton Cool. So
Speaker 6: this is the reaction I look for. Jacobell has an
Speaker 6: entire corner of his backyard dedicated to decaying McDonald's memorabilia,
Speaker 6: including the Big Mac Climber, which now goes for thousands
Speaker 6: of we first, god, he so what are you gonna
Speaker 6: do with that?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put there. I'm gonna look at it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna smile because it makes me happy.
Speaker 6: He does have kids, but this was more for his
Speaker 6: inner child and no injuries to report just yet. Matt Shearer, WBZ,
Speaker 6: Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: News Radio. NASA is narrowing the lists of possible lending
Speaker 1: sites for putting the next humans on the Moon.
Speaker 7: Space Agency officials say they're looking at nine possible regions
Speaker 7: near the Moon's south pole based on geological characteristics and
Speaker 7: flexibility for missions. The south pole has been permanently shadowed
Speaker 7: that increases the possibility of ice. It's a strategic reserve
Speaker 7: that could be converted to drinking water for astronauts and
Speaker 7: used to eventually manufacture or rocket fuel. NASA hopes to
Speaker 7: land astronauts there as soon as twenty twenty six on
Speaker 7: its Artemis three mission. Peter King's TBS News, Are you
Speaker 7: in charge of Thanksgiving dinner this year? If you are,
Speaker 7: you might want to feed the gang without breaking the bank.
Speaker 7: And turns out retailers want your business and they're duking
Speaker 7: it out early this year to get a slice of
Speaker 7: your spending.
Speaker 8: Pie brochers are rolling back prices to compete with shoppers
Speaker 8: who are on a budget. Walmart is promoting a so
Speaker 8: called inflation free Thanksgiving twenty nine items to feed eight
Speaker 8: people for under seven dollars a person. Sam's Club members
Speaker 8: meal feeds ten at about ten bucks a person, and
Speaker 8: it can be delivered to your house pre cooked so
Speaker 8: it only takes two hours to heat up. And ald
Speaker 8: is offering its lowest prices since twenty nineteen, a meal
Speaker 8: for ten, including a butterball turkey, at just under five
Speaker 8: bucks per person.
Speaker 1: At his ABC is Elizabeth Sulsey. And if you really
Speaker 1: want to save some money on your Thanksgiving dinner, have
Speaker 1: someone else host to get together. Just saying you are
Speaker 1: now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,
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Speaker 1: Ben Parkner, WBZ Boston's news Radio